Falcon Lake

Charlotte Le Bon’s feature film debut Falcon Lake is an immersive, poetic deep dive into that strange, hazy time between childhood and adolescence

I'm not sure the ending really works, but I like that [Charlotte Le Bon] has made this movie.

It becomes clear that we’re watching the best moments of a story that’s destined to end badly. Yet we keep watching, due in large part to the deeply human performances from Engel and Montpetit.

A smartly executed hybrid of teenage rite-of-passage drama and traditional ghost story, ever so slowly tightens its grip as it plays with our preconceived notions.

“Falcon Lake” is a handsome, intriguing feature directing debut from Le Bon; a naturalistic teen romance spiked with mystique...

The inadvertent effect of the oppressive, almost overbearing gloom that shrouds Falcon Lake is that it manages to sap the life out of its initially carefree depiction of young people’s emotional lives.

This haunting coming-of-age film uses horror tropes to slowly unsettle the audience, building towards an ending that left me a bit shaken.

A knowing horror atmosphere brings freshness to an otherwise familiar rites-of-passage story, and the undertow of unease pays off in a multilayered finale

A script replete with familiar places, common to other film. [Full review in Spanish]

Gorgeous and haunting, LeBon's adaptation of Bastien Vivès' 2017 comic Une Soeur/A Sister makes a few subtle changes with massive ramifications for the text.